Richard Nair
Plant ecophysiologist & biogeochemist | Asst Prof + RI-RS URF @ Trinity College Dublin (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) | Focus: functional ecology, C, water & nutrient cycles, roots, phenology & scaling tech | linktr.ee/richardnair 🌏🌿🫚🖥️
- Reposted by Richard NairJob Alert! We are seeking a dedicated and passionate research assistant to assist the Herbarium Digitisation Coordinator to continue digitisation efforts at an increased pace within our #herbarium. my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... #AcademicTwitter #Botany
- If you're looking for an #EGU26 session to submit your abstract on plant functional biogeochemistry/ecophysiology, how about ours? We'd love to have your submission!
- Interested in how plants work under global change and stress? We're running a EGU session again. We fiddle with the title every year but try and stay friendly. We welcome studies at lots of different scales and methods. Hopefully see you at #EGU26 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
- I really enjoyed working with Dorota on making the figures for this paper and here is a lovely thread from her about making it!
- This figure from a scientific review paper on plant phenology (the cycles of seasonal changes) was a commission from @richardnair.bsky.social and we worked together to bring it to this final form Link to paper in Alt text More on the design process in the 🧵👇 #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt
- Interested in how plants work under global change and stress? We're running a EGU session again. We fiddle with the title every year but try and stay friendly. We welcome studies at lots of different scales and methods. Hopefully see you at #EGU26 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
- My favourite aspect of our research is interdiscipinarity. Thinking about plant physiology, global change, machine learning, instrument building, then deep in irish winter mud as we install some more minirhizotron tubes with @ianpalk.bsky.social and @ryanbrennan.bsky.social Cool science coming up!
- Reposted by Richard NairThe deadline is fast approaching! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll... Deadline: November 14th.
- I completely agree with this! It's so hard to understand the belowground and the world is big and variable so overall accuracy over a big sample may get us closer to useful truth. We need to be cautious we're actually making measurements to a reasonable standard but more precise =/= always better!
- New on the Belowground blog: Perfection versus feasibility in belowground ecology plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/l...
- Phoebe (third from right) won a prize for her poster at @sebiology.bsky.social Plant.Ecophys. Summer School in Portugal last month! Thats the first prize @psb-trinity.bsky.social has ever won, on our first chance, from the first phd student! I'm very proud! 😀
- My amazing research group @psb-trinity.bsky.social made their own bluesky account (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) as I'm not active enough!! Please give them a follow for info about things we're doing on #rootecology and #biogeochemistry here in Botany at @tcddublin.bsky.social 🌍🌿🌳
- Reposted by Richard NairIt seems unbelievable that some journals still keep digitized versions of journal articles from over a hundred years ago *paywalled*!
- 🌎 🤖 💻 ☘️🌳 Interested in the intersection between #ecosystem #ecology and tech development? We're still looking for a research assistant to help with our projects about how roots - the 'hidden half' of plants - work here at Trinity College Dublin. Find the job ad here: www.tcd.ie/botany/vacan...
- Nice to be back in Edinburgh this week for #rhizosphere7. Now I'm full of interesting ideas, met lots of new and old #root and #soil friends, and even seen the inside of the building I graduated in (it was being renovated back then and full of scaffolding). Super worth it 🌱
- Last minute twist on these positions: they are available for EVERYONE, not just EU nationals 🎉 Closing date is tomorrow on some adverts (I won't be able to find and fix them) but we will consider late applications through to early next week (Monday 16th) #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
- A little less than a week left to apply for these positions! #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
- A little less than a week left to apply for these positions! #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
- ⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
- a bittersweet final day for the first substantial Plant-Soil group @tcddublin.bsky.social Botany alumnus. Nadja has gone west like the elves to start a masters in Canada. We're lessened without her. Its strange to be the boss here after being on the other side before!
- (but we grow again in September adding another few positions that are being advertisted now! check out the other posts on my timeline to learn more 🙂)
- #roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd #computervision how can we solve the unique challenges of super-high frequency field root imagery for climate change understanding? this phd will tackle this on a cross-domain project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- ⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
- #roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd can we improve understanding of the 2nd biggest terrestrial C flux by running a root camera really fast and measuring the soil respiration on top of it? its a bit more complicated than that, but thats the big question in this PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- ⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
- ⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
- PhD: Plant-Soil Field Ecology / Ecophysiology -> tinyurl.com/k2ymn5mv PhD: Computational methods to use our plant-soil image data -> tinyurl.com/4hbcwa8v Research Assistant/Technician -> tinyurl.com/ydvbpj6n (links will be updated to my university website once online)
- check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
- There's still time to submit #EGU25!
- we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
- Reposted by Richard NairTwo important updates for our session: 1) wonderful "vegetation response examples" (Background images) updated by Camille Abadie and 2) wonderful keynote speaker in our session: Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social . Very looking forward 😃🎊🥂: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
- Reposted by Richard NairI'm hiring! 2+2 year postdoc position on forecasting plant defence and resilience to pathogens. Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have? Deadline 13/01. plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾
- we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
- (we're also online for remote presentations!)
- I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientistsat://did:plc:nxlnexlp7zv34luqfwegdzti/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb3jrztxub2t
- Is there a root scientists list that I can't find? Should I make one?
- big milestone for the Plant-Soil Function group at Trinity today as Nadja baked our first ever research cake from the #RootCheck Research Ireland #NationalChallengeFund #NextGenerationEU project (soil corable chocolate cake)
- 📢📢full funded (EU-UK) PhD project with me at Trinity College Dublin doing cutting edge stuff with automated root measurements to understand ecosystem greenhouse gas fluxes 🌍🌿🌳💻: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #roots #phdposition #rootecology
- 🌿NEW PAPER 🌍... doi.org/10.1111/gcb..... how nutrient availability change a mediterranean 'savannoid' ecosystem - different nutrient paths to the same C cycling. Extra N is making these systems better C sinks, but long term drying and warming trend means C losses in the long term
- Reposted by Richard NairWe really need slack in our carbon budget and we aren't even following our wildly optimistic carbon budget
- I agree with the issues with the visualisation of effects in the 'classic' bounduary graphic. But the concept is so embedded in teaching now I'm worried about switching and confusing students
- "Cautionary remarks on the planetary boundary visualisation" doi.org/10.5194/esd-...
- Reposted by Richard Nair"Cautionary remarks on the planetary boundary visualisation" doi.org/10.5194/esd-...
- Reposted by Richard Nair🚨Come work with us @UniLeipzig! We are searching for a scientific programmer in Earth System modelling 🌦️🌲🌡️ Collabs with LIM, @rsc4earth.bsky.social & beyond, #WorkLifeBalance diverse & inclusive workplace. 3yrs up to permanent. Apply by Sep. 10👇 tinyurl.com/LUlandint
- Here's me at #IUFRO2024 , talking about a topic dear to my heart - forest canopy nitrogen uptake, how trees in the anthropocene may cheat N competition with microbes by taking up N from deposition over the canopy- thanks to a dissemination grant from the CLEANFOREST cost action
- looking forward to our session. Vegetation and ecosystem responses to global change - function and carbon-water relations! tomorrow bright and early first thing on 8.30 EGU Monday morning #EGU24 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...
- 📢We're recruting a RA for #NCF RootCheck #NationalChallengeFund #NextGenerationEU project. Come work with us to validate our development of next generation plant root assessment tools tinyurl.com/RootCheckRA #NextGenerationEU
- Reposted by Richard NairIn which BBC Wales neatly encapsulates our national media's inability to respond appropriately to the most significant social movement of this generation, replete with three completely worthless rage quotes from anonymous social media users.
- any recommendations for a citation manager that integrates well without lag in google docs with lots of references? i use zotero offline but its becoming unusable in collaborative documents because of the wait every time i need to fix a citation
- Rare snow in Ireland plus a feathered friend
- Hurra #hashtag s!
- 📢 App Version 1.70 is rolling out now (1/6) Hashtags! You can now use #hashtags in your posts. When you tap them, you’ll get a menu with lots of handy options:
- I really enjoyed my small part in participating in this review of how we can infer functioning of plants and their biogeochemical implications in the past through fossil plant traits! 🌿🌍⏳ doi.org/10.1111/nph....
- Really enjoyed having @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social visit us at TCD today! Lots of interesting root stuff! So much so I forgot to take pictures...
- One week until the deadline! Hoping for another great session at #EGU24 in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣🐉🎉!
- Our session on 🌿vegetation function and global change 🌍(at any scale) 🛰️📏is back for the 5th time 🎉 We'd love to see you in Vienna or online at #EGU24 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio... w/ co-convenors M DeKauwe, V Rolo, Y Luo and @scaldararu.bsky.social
- Reposted by Richard NairPity that it's a picture of a dead butterfly.
- Love multi-layered puns. Hate climate change. 🌍
- this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em...
- Our session on 🌿vegetation function and global change 🌍(at any scale) 🛰️📏is back for the 5th time 🎉 We'd love to see you in Vienna or online at #EGU24 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio... w/ co-convenors M DeKauwe, V Rolo, Y Luo and @scaldararu.bsky.social
- Very happy to have contributed to this comparison of #minirhizotron segmentation methods. Generalisation is very important for new techniques doi.org/10.1186/s130...
- Better tools for reviewers please! (also better tools for editors, plus preprints)
- 👀 📺 🔗 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0yo...
- something unclear to me about academia - if your office is full of books - are you buying them out of research grants? your own money? textbooks are expensive and it doesnt feel like its a brilliant investment on either
- Reposted by Richard Nair💯 So much of my academic life is spent trying to figure out how to do things that someone else is an expert in (like international shipping, purchasing, or hiring).
- Bluesky is nice and all, especially in a -this-is-not-twitter sense but some bits still confused me. Like why is the cog icon in the app both for settings (as expected) and your feeds (something that I found once and struggled to find again until I was looking for settings!)
- Not only this, but these things are important!
